Two people with a past are reunited after years separated... and he doesn’t even remember her. Alessandro ‘Alpha’ Villanova has fought his way to being at the top of his empire in Los Fortis. He’s a fighter and he suffered an event in his youth that left him missing one eye and most of his memories of that time. Zephyr de la Vega is looking for love, and she can’t forget the one that completely destroyed her, the one that got away and left her waiting for him for 10 years. She’s a hair stylist and when a bad break up leads her into running into Alpha again, her Alpha, she just kisses him. When she realizes he doesn’t remember her she opts to try and get him to fall in love with her again by proposing a contract marriage for six months... yet Alpha has sworn off any kind of relationship. There’s also the fact that there is a killer going around killing girls and living bits of Alpha at the crime scene trying to frame him. The more Zephyr tries to love Alpha, the more she tries to get him to fall for her the more distant she feels him growing and when it reaches the point where she realizes maybe he’ll never be the person she loved, he’ll never love her, she decides to leave, to give him what he wanted, distance, and separation... but the beast has been awoken and he won’t let her go. He can’t. This is the fourth book in the series and while you can read it as a standalone it definitely works better if you read the series in order so you can get a better scope of the entire storyline and enjoy more character interactions because YES DANTE, AMARA, TRISTAN, AND MORANA ARE ALL HERE ( and so are their kids). While this one ended more abruptly than the other books ( since there is another book in the series) it felt a bit off kilter. I was definitely expecting it to end on a better ending but it felt so abrupt and cut off that I was left a bit confused. I definitely can’t wait to see where the final book goes and how the mystery unravels and what the last couple of the book ends up being like. I did enjoy Zephyr and Alpha as a couple, they definitely gave off the “beauty and the beast” vibe especially with how often the word Beast is used in this book haha.